svm

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Support Vector Machines (SVM) are supervised learning algorithms used for classification and regression by finding optimal decision boundaries between data classes.

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MMC, SVC, SVM: What’s the difference?

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Imagine you're at a party separating people who love pizza (yum!) from those who...well, have...

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A guide to understanding support vector machines for classification: from theory to scikit-learn implementation.

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based on "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & TensorFlow" (O'Reilly, Aurelien Geron) - bjpcjp/scikit-and-tensorflow-workbooks

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A complete explanation of the inner workings of Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel

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An intuitive visual explanation

In this post, we will try to gain a high-level understanding of how SVMs work. I’ll focus on developing intuition rather than rigor. What that essentially means is we will skip as much of the math as possible and develop a strong intuition of the working principle.